Cutting Down the Amount of Homework（高一适用）

More and more students in Beijing are getting shorter sleeping time according to a recent study.     

The First Cotton Gin （高一适用）

Cloth-making was greatly increased, both in the United States and in England, by the invention of a machine to remove the seed from the cotton, which grew abundantly(大量地) in the southern area of the United States. This machine was the work of Eli Whitney, a young man from New England who had gone south to teach at school.     

A Quick E-mail（高一适用）

Mr Lynch left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick E-mail. Unable to find the piece of paper on which he had written her E-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory.     

Variety in Folk Songs（高一适用）

It is generally understood that a ballad is a song that tells a story, but a folk song is not so easily defined. A ballad is a folk song, but a folk song is not a ballad unless it tells a story.     

征稿说明

“Which language is the most .widely spoken,English, Russian or Chmese? ”“Which football team won the World Cup in 1978?” “How many kilometres are there in 64 miles?”     

Mr,Mrs,Miss and Ms（高一适用）

Almost everyone knows the meanings of Mr, Mrs, and Miss. Mr is used before the surnames or full names of men. Mrs is for married women and Miss is for sigle women. But what is Ms?     

Hongkong＇s Problem of Drinking Water（高一适用）

Water has been one of Hong Kong‘s biggest problems. Sometimes they have too much rain and this causes a great deal of damage. At other time they have not enough. Once water taps could be used for only four hours every fourth day. For the rest of the time, there was no water. Some of the water they use comes from China but it is not enough. They have an average(平均的) rainfall of about 216cm and it is very important to use all of it. Unfortunately,     

A Wealthy Computer Programmer of Only 16（高一适用）

Computer programmer David Jones earned 35,000 dollars a year designing new computer games,yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. ,Instead, he had been told to wait another two years until he is 18.     

Hostage Crisis

Some 40 heavily armed Chechen guerrilas(游击队员),including masked women with explosives strapped to their bodies, burst into the theatre in Southeast Moscow on Wednesday night(Oct. 23, 2002), firing into the air and shouting:“Stop the war in Chechnya.“     

The Education Level and Society’s Demand

When people advise your children to“get an education”, if you want to raise your payment, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to give manpower(人力)for your society, but not so much that you prove a difficulty to your society.     

由introduce谈介绍

A man is going to the house of a friend.     

Hollywood

To many people, the word Hollywood has two meanings. Hollywood is an area in Los Angeles. Hollywood is also the American movie industry.     

We Have Our Own Way of Education

On June I7, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:     

Units5-7重难点句式学法导航

As the society develops, information becomesmore important than ever before. Computers willgradually be familiar to more and more people andbe used in more and more ways. Internet makes theworld integrated(合并) as a whole. So, it is important to learn how to make use of the Internet.     

US struggles to find more host families

WASHINGTON-Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer.     

Tree frog

Birds live in trees.squirrels(松鼠)live in trees.but did you know that some frogs live in trees,too?     

阅读理解

Mr Reece had a farm in the south of England. Mr and Mrs Reece grew a lot of things. They worked very hard. One day , Mr Reece said to her, “Let's go to London next Sunday. We can have a good lunch there, and then we can go and see aplay.”     

活学近（同）义词，巧做句子替换

阅读提示：兔子最初并不豁嘴，只因为有一次高兴过了头．把嘴笑裂了．就变成了现在这样子。     

Does Everyone Benefit ？

NEW YORK--America has been experiencing the longest economic increase in its history. Incomes have risen, unemployment has fallen, and cities such as New York are bursting with new office buildings.